The Electric Guitar – A Primer
Electric guitars are musical instruments that give off a sound through vibrating strings that are converted to electrical currents through the pickups and then amplified. The first electric guitars were produced in the 1930s and consisted hollow-arch top acoustic guitars with electromagnetic transducers attached. The modern ‘solid-body’ electric guitar made its debut in the 1940s with the invention of the Fender by Les Paul.
The Guitar’s BodyMost bodies of an electric guitar are made of a solid piece of wood but some do have a semi-hollow resonance chamber. The body is the house for the pickups and controls of the guitar. Acoustic guitars vibrate their sound through a ‘soundboard’ on the body and thus the type of wood is important (the same is found on the right handed and left handed acoustic electric guitar). Despite soundboards not being used; the wood type used in the body of…
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